Just curious how Boston drops to 3rd.

Panthers and Toronto don’t even have enough cap to bring all their big names back.

Panthers kinda get to choose between Reinhart and montour or they sacrifice all their depth.

Bruins have just over 20 mill in cap this off-season with only really swayman to resign I feel they let debrusk walk. Ullmark is another name that could be moved at the draft so bump that up to 25ish mill, Bruins have a lot of money to improve their squad aswell as expected increase in development in young guys like lysell/ lohrei/ poitras

I wrote tossup between the top 3 so 🤷🏻. Leafs core is signed so not sure what you mean.
Both teams have about same cap space - once you account for Swayman who is due a big raise .

By big names I should have said depth for leaf’s which leaf’s have struggled to have consistent ones.

Both teams may have similar cap im pretty sure B’s still have quite a bit more but anyways, Toronto has a lot more holes to fix. Bruins only real need is a true 1C or a top tier winger that could make up for coyle and Zacha being 2Cs, they could easily do that with Guentzel/ Reinhart/ Lindholm. leaf’s desperately need a more consistent goalie, they still lack a top tier defence and they need more scoring from their depth.

Everyone entitled to their opinion and appreciate your feedback; I don’t know the bruins well and won’t comment on what they need (I guess that didn’t stop you from telling me what the leafs need but 🤷🏻), from a simple cap perspective:
1/ assume Leafs sign RFA deals for Robertson & Dewar ($1.25M each) & have Quillan (college FA) as their 13th forward , they have $16M left to sign 4 spots - 3RHD (Liligren is an RFA) & 1B goalie to Woll.
2/ bruins - assuming they sign Swayman to $6M deal (seems to be consensus amongst Bruins fans), you’ll have $15.8M to sign 4 spots - 3 x top 9 forwards and a Dman.
Of course trades could change everything, but situations are pretty similar.
Leafs did struggle with goaltending (Sammy’s form in 1st half & Woll with injury) & Bruins got best goaltending in league. Difficult to repeat same next year but 🤷🏻; I’m pretty comfortable where the Leafs are at.
I think it’ll be the same 3 battling it out for Atlantic